New Jersey Blogs: Politicstag:blog.nj.com,2014:/jerseyblogs/13492011-01-26T11:25:53ZKelly Heyboer on New Jersey bloggersMovable Type Enterprise 4.29-advanceWal-Mart's food fight: Bloggers on Michelle Obama's endorsement of mega-chain's health initativetag:blog.nj.com,2011:/jerseyblogs//1349.5616065.201101251244532011-01-26T11:25:53Z2011-01-25T17:44:53ZMitsu Yasukawa/ The Star-Ledger The produce section at a Wal-Mart in North Bergen. First Lady Michelle Obama and Wal-Mart teamed up last week to announce the nation's largest retailer will cut the price of fruits and vegetable and make many...Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/kheyboer/index.html
Mitsu Yasukawa/ The Star-Ledger The produce section at a Wal-Mart in North Bergen. First Lady Michelle Obama and Wal-Mart teamed up last week to announce the nation's largest retailer will cut the price of fruits and vegetable and make many...
Gov. Chris Christie's snow day: Bloggers on N.J.'s lingering leadership questionstag:blog.nj.com,2011:/jerseyblogs//1349.5500698.201101041227372011-01-05T11:12:00Z2011-01-04T17:27:37ZANDREW MILLS/THE STAR-LEDGERWith no snow plows anywhere to be found, residents of Homestead Road in Wall Township began to shovel out their street by hand at 6:30 am as remnants of blizzard that hit New Jersey two days earlier continued...Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/kheyboer/index.html
ANDREW MILLS/THE STAR-LEDGERWith no snow plows anywhere to be found, residents of Homestead Road in Wall Township began to shovel out their street by hand at 6:30 am as remnants of blizzard that hit New Jersey two days earlier continued...
Birth control battle: Bloggers on whether health care reform should include free contraceptiontag:blog.nj.com,2010:/jerseyblogs//1349.5228001.201011021454432010-11-03T10:34:11Z2010-11-02T18:54:43ZFile photoFederal officials are considering making birth control free under the new health care reform law. Last year, pharmacies filled nearly 93 million birth control prescriptions for American women. By next year, all of those birth control pills could be...Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/kheyboer/index.html
File photoFederal officials are considering making birth control free under the new health care reform law. Last year, pharmacies filled nearly 93 million birth control prescriptions for American women. By next year, all of those birth control pills could be...
ARC Tunnel vision: Bloggers on Gov. Chris Christie's big decision on overbudget projecttag:blog.nj.com,2010:/jerseyblogs//1349.5195673.201010261210462010-10-27T10:52:12Z2010-10-26T16:10:46ZJerry McCrea/The Star-LedgerWorkers at the construction site at the entranceway to the ARC Tunnel in North Bergen. Gov. Chris Christie is considering calling off the project, which is running over budget. Boston’s "Big Dig" went at least $11 billion over...Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/kheyboer/index.html
Jerry McCrea/The Star-LedgerWorkers at the construction site at the entranceway to the ARC Tunnel in North Bergen. Gov. Chris Christie is considering calling off the project, which is running over budget. Boston’s "Big Dig" went at least $11 billion over...
Newark’s Facebook friend: Bloggers on the $100 million Mark Zuckerberg-Cory Booker deal for Newark schoolstag:blog.nj.com,2010:/jerseyblogs//1349.50765102010-09-29T10:20:48Z2010-09-29T12:57:39ZNoah Berger/BloombergFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg used his blog last week to explain his year-long quest to find a way to make an impact on American education. In the end, the 26-year-old concluded New Jersey’s largest city...Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/kheyboer/index.html
Noah Berger/BloombergFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg used his blog last week to explain his year-long quest to find a way to make an impact on American education. In the end, the 26-year-old concluded New Jersey’s largest city...
'Don't ask, don't tell' showdown: Bloggers on Congressional vote to repeal gays in the military bantag:blog.nj.com,2010:/jerseyblogs//1349.50459182010-09-22T10:34:47Z2010-09-21T20:13:09ZCliff Kucine/Getty ImagesLady Gaga speaks during the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network Grassroots Rally in support of repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" at Deering Oaks Park near the University of Southern Maine campus in Portland, Maine. Gay rights activists were hoping...Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/kheyboer/index.html
Cliff Kucine/Getty ImagesLady Gaga speaks during the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network Grassroots Rally in support of repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" at Deering Oaks Park near the University of Southern Maine campus in Portland, Maine. Gay rights activists were hoping...
Pastor Terry Jones and the media: Bloggers on the press coverage of the Quran burning furortag:blog.nj.com,2010:/jerseyblogs//1349.5015906.201009141653242010-09-15T10:34:17Z2010-09-14T20:53:24ZPAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty ImagesPastor Terry Jones of Dove World Outreach Center speaks with reporters after delivering the news that Qurans would not be burned at the church in Gainesville, Florida on Sept 11. Pastor Terry Jones’ planned burning of Qurans...Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/kheyboer/index.html
PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty ImagesPastor Terry Jones of Dove World Outreach Center speaks with reporters after delivering the news that Qurans would not be burned at the church in Gainesville, Florida on Sept 11. Pastor Terry Jones’ planned burning of Qurans...
Race to the Top, Gov. Chris Christie and Bret Schundler: Bloggers on N.J.’s $400 million lessontag:blog.nj.com,2010:/jerseyblogs//1349.4959502.201009011008192010-09-01T11:06:06Z2010-09-01T14:08:19ZTony Kurdzuk/The Star-LedgerLifting a copy of the 1,000 page "Race to the Top" application onto the podium, Gov. Chris Christie begins to explain to reporters the one page "clerical error" that allegedly cost the state $400 million in federal funds...Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/kheyboer/index.html
Tony Kurdzuk/The Star-LedgerLifting a copy of the 1,000 page "Race to the Top" application onto the podium, Gov. Chris Christie begins to explain to reporters the one page "clerical error" that allegedly cost the state $400 million in federal funds...
President Obama's Muslim/ Christian question: Bloggers on the confusion over the president's faithtag:blog.nj.com,2010:/jerseyblogs//1349.4932224.201008241830262010-08-25T11:07:16Z2010-08-24T22:30:26ZEPA/Dennis Brack-PoolAbout a fifth of Americans believe President Barack Obama is Muslim, despite his history as a Christian. President Obama was baptized a Christian, spent 20 years as a member of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago and repeatedly...Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/kheyboer/index.html
EPA/Dennis Brack-PoolAbout a fifth of Americans believe President Barack Obama is Muslim, despite his history as a Christian. President Obama was baptized a Christian, spent 20 years as a member of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago and repeatedly...
WikiLeaks' new journalism: Bloggers on the morals of releasing Afghanistan war documentstag:blog.nj.com,2010:/jerseyblogs//1349.4831469.201008021834302010-08-04T11:07:08Z2010-08-02T22:34:30ZPhoto Illustration by Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesThe homepage of the WikiLeaks.org website is seen on a computer after leaked classified military documents were posted to it. WikiLeaks, an organization based in Sweden which publishes anonymous submissions of sensitive documents from governments...Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/kheyboer/index.html
Photo Illustration by Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesThe homepage of the WikiLeaks.org website is seen on a computer after leaked classified military documents were posted to it. WikiLeaks, an organization based in Sweden which publishes anonymous submissions of sensitive documents from governments...
'Las Vegas East'?: Bloggers on Gov. Chris Christie's Atlantic City takeover plantag:blog.nj.com,2010:/jerseyblogs//1349.4811053.201007271659492010-07-28T10:26:45Z2010-07-27T20:59:49ZAndrew Mills/The Star-LedgerTrump Plaza, Caesars and Bally's Casinos can be seen from the beach at St. James Place, where Gov. Chris Christie announced a proposed overhaul of the Atlantic City's casino district. For more than three decades, people have been...Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/kheyboer/index.html
Andrew Mills/The Star-LedgerTrump Plaza, Caesars and Bally's Casinos can be seen from the beach at St. James Place, where Gov. Chris Christie announced a proposed overhaul of the Atlantic City's casino district. For more than three decades, people have been...
Privatizing New Jersey: Bloggers on Gov. Chris Christie and calls to turn state services over to for-profit companiestag:blog.nj.com,2010:/jerseyblogs//1349.4763329.201007131527542010-07-14T11:03:18Z2010-07-13T19:27:54ZTONY KURDZUK/THE STAR-LEDGERAn associate lane technician performs an emmissions test on a vehicle at the New Jersey Department of Motor Vehicles Westfield inspection station. Could the answer to New Jersey’s money woes be hiring for-profit companies in place of state...Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/kheyboer/index.html
TONY KURDZUK/THE STAR-LEDGERAn associate lane technician performs an emmissions test on a vehicle at the New Jersey Department of Motor Vehicles Westfield inspection station. Could the answer to New Jersey’s money woes be hiring for-profit companies in place of state...
Arizona immigration law and Princeton IDs: Bloggers on the dueling approaches to immigration reformtag:blog.nj.com,2010:/jerseyblogs//1349.4644329.201006081719292010-06-09T11:06:55Z2010-06-08T21:19:29ZJohn Moore/Getty ImagesOpponents of Arizona's new immigration enforcement law protested outside the state capitol building in Phoenix. In Arizona, officials are gearing up for the controversial implementation of a new law that will allow police to ask suspected illegal immigrants...Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/kheyboer/index.html
John Moore/Getty ImagesOpponents of Arizona's new immigration enforcement law protested outside the state capitol building in Phoenix. In Arizona, officials are gearing up for the controversial implementation of a new law that will allow police to ask suspected illegal immigrants...
Texas-style textbooks: Bloggers on attempts to rewrite history for public school kidstag:blog.nj.com,2010:/jerseyblogs//1349.4592084.201005251321072010-05-26T11:05:46Z2010-05-25T17:21:07ZJerry McCrea/ The Star-Ledger A high school history textbook at the West Milford High School. Starting next fall, history will be changing in Texas classrooms. Textbooks will question the separation of church and state and portray 1950s McCarthyism in a...Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/kheyboer/index.html
Jerry McCrea/ The Star-Ledger A high school history textbook at the West Milford High School. Starting next fall, history will be changing in Texas classrooms. Textbooks will question the separation of church and state and portray 1950s McCarthyism in a...
Is Elena Kagan gay or straight?: Bloggers on the internet debate over the Supreme Court nomineetag:blog.nj.com,2010:/jerseyblogs//1349.4542345.201005111904192010-05-12T10:12:48Z2010-05-11T23:04:19ZWin McNamee/Getty ImagesPresident Barack Obama, with Vice President Joe Biden, while introducing Solicitor General Elena Kagan as his choice to be the nation's 112th Supreme Court justice during an event in the East Room of the White House. As President...Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/kheyboer/index.html
Win McNamee/Getty ImagesPresident Barack Obama, with Vice President Joe Biden, while introducing Solicitor General Elena Kagan as his choice to be the nation's 112th Supreme Court justice during an event in the East Room of the White House. As President...
Gov. Chris Christie vs. N.J. teachers: Bloggers on the showdown with the NJEAtag:blog.nj.com,2010:/jerseyblogs//1349.4388756.201003301434102010-03-31T09:52:15Z2010-03-30T18:34:10ZThe RecordHundreds of teachers picketed state Sen. Bob Gordon's office in Fair Lawn last week in protest of Gov. Chris Christie's proposed school budget changes. On one side you have a powerful union with hundreds of thousands of members, a...Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/kheyboer/index.html
The RecordHundreds of teachers picketed state Sen. Bob Gordon's office in Fair Lawn last week in protest of Gov. Chris Christie's proposed school budget changes. On one side you have a powerful union with hundreds of thousands of members, a...
Bergen's 'blue law' brawl: Bloggers debate Gov. Chris Christie's plan to end Sunday shopping bantag:blog.nj.com,2010:/jerseyblogs//1349.4359705.201003231624582010-03-24T09:47:09Z2010-03-23T20:24:58ZCarmine Galasso / The Record Staff PhotographerShoppers at Garden State Plaza mall in Paramus, one of the Bergen County shopping centers that will open on Sunday if Gov. Chris Christie gets his way. It happens every weekend in parking lots...Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/kheyboer/index.html
Carmine Galasso / The Record Staff PhotographerShoppers at Garden State Plaza mall in Paramus, one of the Bergen County shopping centers that will open on Sunday if Gov. Chris Christie gets his way. It happens every weekend in parking lots...
Pension reform payback: Bloggers on N.J.'s attempt to overhaul state retirement programtag:blog.nj.com,2010:/jerseyblogs//1349.42493822010-02-24T13:41:26Z2010-02-24T13:42:42Z Patti Sapone/The Star Ledger Gov. Chris ChristieGive me $62,000 over the course of your career. When you’re ready to retire, I’ll give you $1.4 million, plus another $215,000 for your health care premiums. Sounds like a good deal, right?...Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/kheyboer/index.html
Patti Sapone/The Star Ledger Gov. Chris ChristieGive me $62,000 over the course of your career. When you’re ready to retire, I’ll give you $1.4 million, plus another $215,000 for your health care premiums. Sounds like a good deal, right?...
Rahm Emanuel and "retarded": Bloggers on banning the R-wordtag:blog.nj.com,2010:/jerseyblogs//1349.4197377.201002091654442010-02-10T10:55:25Z2010-02-09T21:54:44ZStar-Ledger Editorial Boardhttp://connect.nj.com/user/njosledit/index.htmlSen. Harry Reid and "Negro dialect": Bloggers on President Obama and the politics of racetag:blog.nj.com,2010:/jerseyblogs//1349.4102422.201001121433302010-01-13T11:04:26Z2010-01-12T19:33:30ZKelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledgerhttp://connect.nj.com/user/kheyboer/index.html